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Medical remedies and treatments of medical disorders, approximately 1792.

Publication date: 1792

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: Materia medica, Medicine--Practice, Therapeutics, Sill, Theodore, 1808-1853.

Collection: cushingwhitneymedicallibrary; medicalheritagelibrary

Language: english-handwritten

1 of 2 booklets in an envelope ; 24 cm

Donated in 2016 by Gail Wine, whose grandfather Dr. Aaron Paul Pratt practiced in Windsor, Connecticut in the early 20th century. Dr. Pratt and his wife collected historical materials including some items by Dr. Theodore Sill.

Two manuscript booklets written by an American physician listing remedies and their uses, and medical conditions and their treatments. Examples of the former are "Elixir camphoratum," Sal Ammoniac, "Pilule hysterieae," and "Ethiops Mineral." There are treatments for a variety of conditions including, "A certain cure for a cancer" and "hysterick disorders." Entries are separated by lines. The physician, not identified in the manuscript, recommends purges and emetics in many situations. On the cover of one booklet is written "August ye 27" and the name "Rookhouse[?]." At the end of the second manuscript is a date, October 9, 1792. The notebooks were donated in a modern envelope labeled "Dr. Sill's books." Dr. Theodore Sill, was an 1831 graduate of the Medical Institution of Yale College who died in Windsor in 1853. However, the contents of the book seem more likely to have been written in the1790s than by Dr. Sills in the 1830s or later.